thought of the day

[Raina]

I have a framed autographed picture of norm in the basement.

 

[pintoca]

somebody answer my damn birdeye question!

 

[moose11]

I have a framed autographed picture of norm in the basement.

wow u really like men with wood huh?

 

[Raina]

Pintoca- that's an exotic hardwood and one with a particular graining. Kind of like why tiger maple is a bigger deal than regular maple. You can't just grow some things. They just happen sometimes but aren't the norm.

 

[redguru]

You mean Birdseye Maple? Its pretty common in the guitar industry, haven't heard much of its use in the building industry.

 

[Raina]

Birdseye maple. Tiger Maple. All of those are just uncommon variations. You can't just plant a birdseye maple tree. You plant a ton of maple trees and maybe one will wind up having an unusual graining.

One could use one of those specialized grained hardwoods for building but it would be expensive. Plus it often looks busy.

 

[pintoca]

You mean Birdseye Maple? Its pretty common in the guitar industry, haven't heard much of its use in the building industry.

that is the thing, it's called Achorn in German and I thought it might be Ahorn in English... some things are simply hard to get by in other languages: fish-names, wood-names, in general things you never read about.

Anyway, I'm looking into this tiresome new car business and the lexus dealer keeps making a BIG (more like a HUGE deal) about the inlays in the car being birdeye-thing, finished at a Yamaha piano factory... I'm like, ehhh, OK, looks pretty, doesn't look like it should cost 2000 €

Just wanted to know how much of a valuable thing we are talking here

 

[stilleto]

Birdseye maple. Tiger Maple. All of those are just uncommon variations. You can't just plant a birdseye maple tree. You plant a ton of maple trees and maybe one will wind up having an unusual graining.

One could use one of those specialized grained hardwoods for building but it would be expensive. Plus it often looks busy.

http://www.bobkloes.com/images/bed-tiger-maple-queen-close.jpg

 

[moose11]

raina so what line of work are u in that u know all of this?

 

[jack sparrow]